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Turkmenistan dismisses five governors over food shortage unrest

Science & Technology - Briefs

Wetlands in danger

Kerala government plans to dilute strict legislation in the name of plugging loopholes

New poverty estimate scrapped

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology

Global civil society organisations support India’s stand at WTO

Support comes just before WTO’s Nairobi meet in December 

The 'other' food crisis

Analysing climate-induced productivity growth in Indian agriculture

State-specific policy initiatives that allow each state’s agricultural production to reach its full potential are more likely to succeed …

No health warnings on iron fortified rice: SC directs govt to respond in 4 weeks

Consuming iron can lead to adverse outcomes like organ failure for thalassemia, sickle cell disease patients

New, more palatable medicine promotes gut bacteria to prevent all food allergies

Treatment has been successfully tested in mice

COVID-19: India gets first tranche of 5 lakh antibody rapid test kits

New kits to be used for surveillance, not diagnosis

Ebola-ravaged Guinea to benefit from new food security initiatives

Nearly 470,000 people in the West African country might be food insecure by March 2015

India’s move to curb antibiotic use in livestock, poultry may hit imports from US

Huge amounts of antibiotics are known to be used in chicken farming in the US

Bushmeat contributing to Ebola epidemic, warns FAO

Ebola death toll rises to over 630

Somalia on verge of being hit by famine

About 250,000 people had died in the famine that hit the Horn of Africa in 2011

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

Come alive with gundruk

Dried-mustard-leaves soup to beat the monsoon blues

Burdened with bumper crop

Faulty procurement, rising farm inputs force West Bengal farmers to commit suicide

Gulp it down the cool way

Thambli, a decoction of herbs, and a soothing drink

Water crisis

Starving cattle

Towards a better yield

Not so special

India floundering after WTO ministerial

Man who authored green revolution dies at 95